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    Montag a brand new hazard at lifestyles, some distance from the city, and with new buddies who percentage his ideals. He walks up at the shore dressed as an intellectual, carrying Faber's clothes, and cleansed of his kerosene fragrance. Montag's transformation is completed when he drinks the elixir supplied him through way of the guys on the tracks. Having altered the chemical composition of his frame fragrance, he isn't always Montag the fireman or Montag the fugitive. Now he's Montag the highbrow, keeper of fact. The men that Montag meets on the tracks, led through using Granger, are the antithesis of those he left in the back of within the metropolis. They're knowledgeable guys who love and revere books, in place of burning them. Their camp hearth serves as a beacon of slight for Montag to take a look at, representing warmth and safety rather than the destruction he's used to. While the person set up to appear to be Montag is killed, it's far symbolic now not only of the dishonesty perpetuated via society, but of the dying of Montag the fireman. Having finished his metamorphosis, Montag is a today's character. As a result, even as Granger says, "welcome lower returned from the vain," he's actually welcoming the brand new Montag to a lifestyles of questioning and consciousness, in preference to the phantasm of satisfied life he had formerly recognized. Granger refers to the training of history no longer directly in techniques. He talks fondly of his grandfather, from…

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    In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury where the government send fireman to burn all book or any literature. In Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood a man name Crake is a well-known scientist and creates a pill that genocide the human race except Jimmy who then become Snowman. In this two book shows how knowledge and government can change the human’s evolution. Crake isn’t the protagonist of Oryx and Crake but he’s the protagonist “Jimmy” best friend. Crake was a smart boy in high school but then…

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    In No Fireman at Ground Zero This 9/11, Michael Burke brings forth the issue of fireman and first responders no longer being honored at ground zero on 9/11. Burke states that not honoring the fireman and first responders who sacrificed their life on 9/11 is atrocious. These most honorable service man deserve to be recognized for their efforts they displayed on 9/11. To bring across the message writing styles such as descriptive sentences, diction, pathos, and ethos are used. Initially,…

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    1 : Introduction 1.1 General Background Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (1953) is a dystopian novel, set in a world where the ownership of books is illegal, and firemen burn books instead of putting fires out. The protagonist, Guy Montag, is a fireman. He decides to investigate the loyalty some in their society have for books by reading some he kept in secret. He is then discovered by his captain who reports him, and is chased by the government until he escapes in a river. In the end, he washes up…

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    Beatty quotes literature to prove a point to Montag. By quoting literature he’s showing him he knows a lot about books. He wants him to think “wow, this guy really knows what he’s talking about” and that books really are as useless as everyone says they are. Who wouldn’t believe someone who sounds so smart, they would feel stupid not to agree with them. The fact that Beatty can quote literature shows that he has read many books in the past, and still doesn’t find them important. He doesn’t…

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    very interesting because it seems like something to look forward to. What ends up happening to most people is that they become a slave to their work and no longer have the ability to choose what they do and don’t want to do because every choice comes out of necessity. What we need to survive will always have to come before what we want and what makes us happy. In the first stanza of “In Creve Coeur, Missouri,” Rosanna Warren thoughtfully begins with the description of the photographer as an…

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    Nystroms: A Short Story

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    neighbors shouted in surprise and fright, but he didn’t stop. Entering into the burning building, he disappeared from sight. Tension spread with each passing minute. Would he make it? Would he find her? Elaine expressed her concerns, saying Joseph had used up all his energy getting them there and couldn’t help. She couldn’t lose him again, not after he had just revealed to her his true identity. A crash sounded from Ella’s bedroom, her scream immediately following. The firemen quickly moved…

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    Guy Montag Changes

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    In a future time in America, instead of fireman stopping fires, they start them and burn books. Guy Montag is one of these fireman’s who burns books on a daily basis without thinking of it. These people in this future world don’t care independently, care about nature, and have useless conversations with each other. Everything changed for Montag when he is encountered by a new neighbor named Clarisse McClellan who is the opposite of everyone in this world. In the next couple of days, his wife…

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    Last June, Morgan Kent crossed the finish line at the end of the 10k FitSpirit Celebration run, improving on her previous year’s 5k goal. This June, she’ll be returning to the finish line, this time to cheer on the other girls with a camera in hand to catch the moment of, “I did that” - a look of sheer accomplishment and pride on the participants’ faces as it sinks in that they’ve reached their personal goals. The FitSpirit Celebration comes at the end of every 8 to 10 week training program that…

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    Imagine a world where books are forbidden, everything is fast paced and firemen don’t put out fires they make them. In the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury published in October of 1953, there is a main character named Montag. The book is about how Montag learns to like books. The characters in the book try to either teach Montag to like books or steer him away from books. One of the characters, Clarisse teaches Montag that not everything has to be fast paced or you don’t have to follow…

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